Ghost shrimp babies! W/pics

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adeebm

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So about a year ago, I got ~4 ghost shrimp and added them to my brackish crab tank. They made and excellent clean up crew, and I pretty much left them alone to do their thing since. I recently remembered that I hadn't seen then in a while, so I went to take a look, and this is what u found: the original parents have grown HUGE(for ghost shrimp), and have been quite busy. I saw at least six 1/4in baby ghost shrimp swimming around. I was pretty surprised that they reproduced and grew to adulthood, in brackish at that. Here's some pics(kinda blurry, they were super fast):

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That streak is one of the parents. He's the same size as one of my fiddlers.

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better pic

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One of the babies

--Adeeb
 
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